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Learn Python The Hard Way.
by RyanMcGreal 15y ago
Learn Python The Hard Way.
- dagw 15y agoLPtHW is a great book for learning how to program. If you're already a competent programmer looking to pick up python, then you'll probably find it very slow going, and probably better served by something better. I personally learned python from The Quick Python Book, which I thought was quite good.
- c4m 15y agoDoes it cover Python 3? I cannot tell from reading http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ - maybe I missed something.
- SkyMarshal 15y agoHeh, not exactly: "A programmer may try to get you to install Python 3 and learn that. You should tell them, "When all of the python code on your computer is Python 3, then I'll try to learn it." That should keep them busy for about 10 years." http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex0.html http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex0.html (under Warnings for Beginners)
- c4m 15y agoIs that actually good advice?
- selectnull 15y agoYes, that is a good advice. Someone wanting to learn Python (or any other language) will be better served if they are helped to focus at most important and least painful things first: in this case, python 2 is everywhere with huge number of libraries. Whatever you need is 'pip install' away. Learning Python 2 is not a waste of time: whatever you learn and is changed in Python 3, will be easily relearned once it becomes needed.